SupaJam Education In Music and Media

Overview

SupaJam Education in Music and Media is rated as ‘Good’ across all inspection categories. The report describes a ‘welcoming, inclusive, calm and friendly community’ where students, many with high needs, ‘thrive’ due to staff who ‘genuinely care about their learning and futures’. Leaders have established ‘clear and effective purpose’ for curricula tailored to engage students previously disengaged from education.

Strengths

• Staff possess ‘excellent subject expertise’ and use effective strategies, such as demonstrations and mnemonics, to help students ‘work with more independence’.
• Students feel they ‘belong and can be themselves’ in an environment that raises awareness of different disabilities and learning difficulties.
• Comprehensive support includes access to therapies and ‘high-quality enrichment activities’, helping students overcome barriers and achieve ‘positive next steps’.
• Leaders have proactively reduced staff workload, resulting in improved well-being, while maintaining ‘excellent oversight’ of subcontracted provision at BN1 Arts.
• Students receive thorough careers education, leaving them ‘well prepared to make decisions about their next steps’.

Areas to improve

• Improve the usefulness of feedback and targets on mathematics work so students know how to achieve a grade 4 or better at GCSE.
• Improve attendance and punctuality for mathematics and English lessons, which are currently less consistent than vocational courses.
• Broaden enrichment and work experience opportunities for young people at BN1 Arts to allow them to pursue wider talents and interests.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are ‘effective’, with leaders having taken recent steps to strengthen these provisions.